10 February 2006
Liveblogging the Torino Opening Ceremonies
Anybody watching the Torino opening ceremonies? Let's find some allusions to Vergil or Dante!
10:55 EST: It's Venus! She's everywhere! A significant addition to the ceremonies, given the fact that she's the mother of the mythological founder of Rome, Aeneas--though Bob Costas didn't think to mention this.
But there's more . . . .
Here's what they're thinking of--Botticelli's Birth of Venus. The painting is actually based on a literary source--a passage from a poem called the Stanze, by the great Renaissance Italian humanist, Poliziano. We'll talk about this painting when we begin looking at Renaissance literature.
No Dante? Did I miss it? The Ferrari doing donuts was pretty cool. But, alas, this doesn't have much to do with world literature . . . .
Any world lit sightings in your own lives?
10:55 EST: It's Venus! She's everywhere! A significant addition to the ceremonies, given the fact that she's the mother of the mythological founder of Rome, Aeneas--though Bob Costas didn't think to mention this.
But there's more . . . .
Here's what they're thinking of--Botticelli's Birth of Venus. The painting is actually based on a literary source--a passage from a poem called the Stanze, by the great Renaissance Italian humanist, Poliziano. We'll talk about this painting when we begin looking at Renaissance literature.
No Dante? Did I miss it? The Ferrari doing donuts was pretty cool. But, alas, this doesn't have much to do with world literature . . . .
Any world lit sightings in your own lives?
# posted by Shawn Smith @ 9:29 PM 
